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Around the first of each month, people actually dream about the month we are entering. It makes you realize that our broken calendar does, in fact, have quite a psychological effect on our mind and, transitively, our collective unconscious.

Let’s take a look at April. As a baseline, here are the graphs of dream language trends for “january”, “february”, and “march” — you can see that there is an increase around the first of each month, but can put it in context with the normal up-and-down noise level:

dream graph: january

dream graph: february

dream graph: march

So historically, a 250-450% increase is expected as we enter a month. Well, April broke those expectations, and then some:

dream graph: april — off the charts

Coming in around at roughly a 2,750% increase, which you can tell dwarfs the normal rise and fall from signal noise. Indeed, part of this is due to dreams about “april fools” — but only about 60% of the “april” dreams were “april fools”:

dream graph: fools — significant, but nowhere near enough to account for the ‘april’ spike

it ain’t easter

I also find it interesting that there were relatively few dreams related to Easter. After seeing turkeys and santas, I expected to see some bunnies or eggs, but there’s actually nothing statistically significant..!